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Luiten, John; And Others – 1978
A method proposed by McCuaig and Hutchings to assess the internal readability variation of books using the Fry readability formula was empirically tested in an analysis of six elementary basal and ten secondary remedial readers. Each book was treated as a series of consecutive 100-word samples. Means and standard deviations were computed for both…
Descriptors: Basic Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Predictive Measurement